In this recipe for caramel apple cupcakes, sour cream cupcake batter is filled with chunks of tart apples and walnuts and then topped with streusel and caramel. Instead of an apple pie at your next gathering, make these apple-and-walnut-filled cupcakes as a twist on a traditional dessert offering. Because the streusel and caramel are sweet, it’s […]
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Hairy Spider Halloween Cupcakes
These Halloween cupcakes are delightfully creepy. The “hair” is made of chocolate shavings, which encase chocolate cake and a fudge frosting, and the legs are made from chow mein noodles. We used small, round confetti candies for eyes, but you could do well with anything small and round, such as a bit of frosting in […]

Pumpkin Cupcakes
These pumpkin cupcakes are a blend of two recipes from my book A Baker’s Field Guide to Cupcakes, taking the outer decoration from one and the inside of another to create the most pumpkiny cupcake of all. The spiced yellow cake is filled with creamy pumpkin mousse, which sounds fancy, but is quick to make […]

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Cupcakes
The first cupcake Matt Robicelli ever added to the Robicelli’s repertoire was The CPB, chocolate cake and peanut butter buttercream topped with roasted peanuts and rich chocolate ganache. Sounds awesome, right? Of course it’s awesome; how the hell can you screw something like that up? Of course, we eventually tired of awesome and needed to […]

Greek Yogurt Banana Cupcakes with Yogurt Ganache
If you have looked at the yogurt section of your dairy case lately, you know that Greek yogurt is huge! Makes sense though, because it is rich, creamy, is available in nonfat, and is quite versatile. Top a baked potato, or use in lieu of sour cream in baking as we did here with our […]